Almost two months later and feeling lost with who to turn to for support, Ms Lee said she approached child protection services to help lift the intervention order, inviting her husband to re-enter her home.

"I cannot survive — I'm not surviving. I haven't had a shower in eight weeks," she told them.

After making that phone call, Ms Lee said she was approached by many services who were able to help her with care.

But she says help should've come much earlier.

"It's funny considering we have so many different support services involved in our lives ... yet turn a blind eye to what they see is going on.

"The people on the front line that are in my house were the ones that were seeing an undertone of what's going on ... but they didn't feel it was their response to do anything.

"They need to be trained and they need to be given safe and supported options of where to go to take their concerns of abuse where they're not going to lose their job."

A future without violence

Ms Lee's call for better training and integration within the disability sector is echoed in a new report released this week by the Australian Human Rights Commission, which calls for a new approach in tackling violence against those with disabilities in institutional settings.

Federal Disability Discrimination Commissioner Alastair McEwin said the report, titled A Future Without Violence, was an important attempt to stop the violence that impacted millions of Australians.

"Because it's behind closed doors, it means that often people with disabilities can't know how to make a report," Mr McEwin told ABC Radio Sydney's Wendy Harmer and James O'Loghlin.

"[And] because police don't know how to communicate with them appropriately, we find that those issues go unreported or are not pursued within the justice system."

Mr McEwin said abuse occurred across the country in hospitals, prisons, out-of-home care and education settings, many of which made it difficult for victims to file a report.

"We have about 4.3 million people with a disability in Australia, and a very high percentage of people with a disability experience violence," he said.

And while he said clear statistics were difficult to quantify, it was an issue that needed attention.

"For example, we know that by the time they're 18, women with intellectual disabilities, up to 90 per cent of them have experienced some form of violence against them, so it's a very significant issue."

The report, which was a year in the making, draws on evidence collected from government, disabled people's organisations, disability advocacy organisations, industry and academia.

It calls for oversight, service integration and better accessibility for people with a disability.